† shimose Mil. Obs.
(ʃɪˈməʊseɪ)
[The name of Masachika Shimose (1859–1911), Japanese engineer.]
A form of lyddite made in Japan. Also † ˈshimosite.
| 1904 Amer. Inventor 1 June 256/2 An explosive used by the Japanese, and called Shimose, after its inventor,..is said to be more powerful than either dynamite or gun-cotton, and to possess features found in no other high-power explosive. 1915 A. Marshall Explosives 322 The first satisfactory solution of the problem was the adoption of picric acid by France. This was quickly followed by similar measures taken by practically all the other Powers, each of whom, however, gave the substance a different name; France..Mélinite, England..Lyddite,..Japan..Shimosite. 1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 258/2 The picric acid compound known as lyddite in England, melinite in France, and shimose in Japan. |